May 11, 2011
Low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific, along with Air Mekong, Saturday increased their airfares on domestic flights (Photo by TBKTSG Online). Budget airline Jetstar Pacific and private carrier Air Mekong raised their prices on Saturday, half of month after the Finance Ministry approved a 22.7 percent increase in domestic airfares. Â Ta Huu Thanh, deputy general director [...]
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November 29, 2009
Vietnam Airlines to double flights to Bangkok; Thai food and culture week comes to Ha Noi; Garuda suspends flights to Viet Nam National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines said it plans to double its daily HCM City-Bangkok service from December 1 as it anticipates demand to rise in Thailand next year when Viet Nam celebrates Ha [...]
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November 24, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Hanoi Railway Station will begin selling train tickets for the Lunar New Year season on December 1 with South-North tickets up by 25%. The price of seat tickets for the South-North route will rise from 10-25% and the price of soft bed tickets by 10% between January 30 and February 11.The price of [...]
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September 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Despite recent petrol-price hikes, transport companies have been forced to keep ticket prices unchanged to remain competitive. Higher petrol prices have eroded the profits of transit companies.On August 30, the petrol price was raised to VND15,700 (US$0.87) per litre, but so far bus and coach operators have not asked to raise prices, according [...]
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September 7, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – Last week was marked by the considerable price increases of many products and services. The gas price increased by 18,000 dong per 12-kilo tank on September 1. As such, the retail price has surged to 268,000 dong per Shell Gas tank, to 245,000 dong per Total Gas tank and 247,000 dong per [...]
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August 31, 2009
Taxi fares and transport costs are set to go up soon after the fuel price hike on Sunday. Mai Linh Corporation, Vietnamâs leading taxi firm, and some other taxi operators said they planned an increase of VND500 per kilometer for all kinds of cabs from September 4.âSince June, gasoline prices have gone up four times. [...]
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July 27, 2009
Delta planes at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Major airlines are fighting the biggest war in 15 years over the lucrative Pacific route linking Australia and the US, experts say. Carriers are slashing prices and offering special deals after US giant Delta and Virginâs V-Australia entered the market this year â“ just [...]
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July 26, 2009
Airport workers unload passenger baggage from an AirAsia Bhd. airplane at the Low Cost Carrier Terminal in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in February 2009. Jimmy Lim Chin Hwa abandoned Singapore Airlines Ltd.âs coach class for budget carrier Jetstar Asia Airways Pte two years ago to save 65 percent on the cost of flying. Heâs noticed more [...]
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July 17, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – An official circular removing ceilings on domestic air fares was issued by the Ministries of Transport and Finance in December 2008, but the decision has not been implemented. However, six months after its promulgation, Circular 103 ‘remains in a drawer’, and government management agencies have not acted on JPA’s suggested airfares. Pham Xuan [...]
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July 7, 2009
Nearly one week after the petrol price rose by 700 dong per litre, three taxi firms, Mai Linh, Huong Lua and Van Xuan, have announced they will raise taxi fares by 500 dong per kilometre. Do Quoc Binh, Chairman of the Hanoi Taxi Association, confirmed the information yesterday, July 6. Binh added that these were the [...]
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